Comoedia A worke in Ryme contayning an Enter-lude of Myndes, witnessing the Mans Fall from God and Christ. Set forth by HN, and by him newly porused and amended. Translated out of Base-almaynes into English [by Christopher Vitell?] |
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The X. Chapter.
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Understanding.Be comforted ; thou Lamenter; and vex thy mynde nomore.
For though thou searchest much, it shall not thee avayle:
For ye Man hath forsaken, both God & his Counsayle/
Through the Knowledg, so greatly exercised/
Which ; by his owne Mocion; he hath enterprised:
Agaynst the Comaundement of God, who liueth in eternytee.
Therfore is he alwayes, Resisting verylee,
The true Obedience, requyred by his Woord:
And woulde likewyse ; with his Speaches most-absurd;
That his owne knowing Wisdom, in place of Gods mought stande.
But so long now as the Man, is not got-out of that Bande
Of his Owne-wisdom/he doth in Errour byde.
And from the Grace of God, is seperated wyde.
For, how wyse soeuer the Man ; in his Purchase; is bocom/
Yet must he first of all, dye from his owne Wisdom/
Ere that he ; the Understanding, of God; can com-by.
Therfore his owne Wisdom, must he forsake and fly,
Confessing before God, to haue no Understanding, a right:
Nor to know wheare God worketh, with his Hande of Might.
Nor yet can comprehende, Gods Works in their Degree.
Lamentacion.
Oh! this same now can the Man, in nowyse rightly see/
Because that his Longing, to the Knowledg is inclyned.
For each-one cometh-forth, with what he hath gott and guyned
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For the Man can not otherwyse, conceaue it in his Mynde,
But that ye Knowledg ; through Searching; must becom learned.
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The X. Chapter.
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